Who here was an AOL Guide back in the day?
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PottedMeat
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Were they the people that shut down the zeraw / cablewarez / massmail rooms. I hated those guys. Sooo long ago.
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Rubycon
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Those were the days. Kiddies would come in the chat rooms with programs like Fate Ultra that had scrollers, room busters (they would run them to fill the room full of "troll has entered the room" - "troll has left the room" messages so nobody else could type anything. They'd fill the rooms with ASCI art, pick on others by using the echo feature so whenever the victim typed something their SN would echo the same thing simultaneously. The software improved so after three lines in succession the scroller was logged off and the authors of Fate updated with a delayed send, etc.
I remember frequenting the Mac or PC room where there would always be arguments. I believe the AOL software I originally had was on a 5.25 floppy. Chatrooms went from A to Z then. :Q
When windows 9x was vulnerable to the CON resource attack trolls would type in {S:\con\con and people with vulnerable systems would drop like flies because it would cause a blue screen of death immediately. That was a big deal back in the modem days. That and win nuke attacks.
{S:\welcome would play the welcome sound. Any wav file put in the AOL root folder could be played and this was popular too and never really frowned upon unless it was used maliciously like above. I believe AOL 5.0 finally fixed the con issue.
I remember frequenting the Mac or PC room where there would always be arguments. I believe the AOL software I originally had was on a 5.25 floppy. Chatrooms went from A to Z then. :Q
When windows 9x was vulnerable to the CON resource attack trolls would type in {S:\con\con and people with vulnerable systems would drop like flies because it would cause a blue screen of death immediately. That was a big deal back in the modem days. That and win nuke attacks.
{S:\welcome would play the welcome sound. Any wav file put in the AOL root folder could be played and this was popular too and never really frowned upon unless it was used maliciously like above. I believe AOL 5.0 finally fixed the con issue.
BillGates
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This will bring back memories for many of us in the 24-30 age range who had AOL back in the day...
http://www.marco.org/44
http://www.marco.org/44
PottedMeat
Lifer
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Oh the memories. Getting banned over and over and over again. WAAS Hydrotica. Email bombing friends and random people.
...what was the program... Creditmaster or something?
destrekor
Lifer
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I remember being so happy when I beta tested AOL 6.0 and then 7.0. I was the envy of my friends for having the new version! :laugh:
oh how I am glad those days are gone.
hah
I loved proggies. I'm pretty sure I was like 9 or 10 when I was first introduced to them in the days of AOL 4.0 or 5.0, can't remember what I had at the time.
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oh how I am glad those days are gone.
hah
I loved proggies. I'm pretty sure I was like 9 or 10 when I was first introduced to them in the days of AOL 4.0 or 5.0, can't remember what I had at the time.
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holy crap flashbacks, for a seconds I was like "zeraw?" then I remembered I used to go there all the time to get tons of crap emailed to me, lol
I remember using dos's .bas file in college to code my own proggies in VB6, then I used my mad VB6 skills to create a idle bot for AllAdvantage.com's ad bar, and had like 15 fake accounts all at variations of my address so I could totally max out revenue. man I was so 733t
I was a guide for a year. It was actually kind've fun. Bumping people off for violating TOS, getting the ASCII middle finger over and over again in chat rooms "Fuck you Guide!" rofl, those were some interesting times
evident
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i joined private room "warcraft 2" asking to play warcraft 2. i did not know the people in it had war 2 for mac. i was immediately flamed and shunned for using a PC. the pc version of war2 did not have tcp/ip support. it made little 11 yr old evident cry, get bitter and become the fate x ultra punting machine!
half of my screen was covered with alladvantage, gotoworld, cashbar, whatever else at the time, plus an idle program
Rubycon
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Here are some of the names I remember:
Lytingstar
Chevyswin
Evlminion
KeikoW
ArleighB
Galahad3
Ntwatchman
LinuxPhrek
WTF Day Is This
DN2483
Zooomer
SeeWhy88
PPetem
Bear lp1
Mac 95 NT4
CindyCee
MoreThanEyes
Parrot
PinerRogue
ZEROTIMES
JJMcCay
PPetem
And a bunch more that I am forgetting I'm sure.
Rubycon
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Originally posted by: Megatomic
My biggest AOL memory was getting it to work with NT 4.0 Workstation. Now THAT was high times for me.
Editing those silly CCL files so TCP/IP would work through nt proxy server @5190. Yep those were the days. We called it NT Worksatan. :laugh:
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